- by Linn Barnes
Solstice
-Linn Barnes
It is said Gabriel will lean down out of heaven
and with a mighty blast on his golden horn
shock with booming wave after wave fields
mountains forests lakes seas and plains
with the clear good news for all the living
that the darkness will be swept back
that a new sun is busy being born
after the longest night is weathered
while the raw cold and fierce winds
hold all on earth in shock and fear
the fires are lit heaped and banked
as all await the dawning of another year